[Paladin2]

[Fungi]

Yep, that was music? More like “music to get stoned to.”

[FranklinsTower]

IMHO, no one was better than the Grateful Dead in what they did — improvise a different show every time.

Sure there were mistakes and misses, but some of the hits were absolutely sublime!

[nuconvert]

:~ )
you got my vote

[VietVet876]

Yeah, you could make their argument pretty easily.

[qam1]

Best Grateful Dead song

Down By the Seaside by Led Zeppelin

[Eccl 10:2]

Live, GD when on was the best. Easily.

They sucked in the studio, but who cares.

[af_vet_1981]

Bill Graham booked Led Zeppelin at both the Fillmore West and East. Perhaps Bill Graham booked every significant band of that era and heard them all.

They did not fit their music to an established category such as pop rock, blues, folk rock, or country & western. Individual tunes within their repertoire could be identified under one of these stylistic labels, but overall their music drew on all of these genres and, more frequently, melded several of them. Bill Graham said of the Grateful Dead, "They're not the best at what they do, they're the only ones that do what they do."[82] Often (both in performance and on recording) the Dead left room for exploratory, spacey soundscapes.

Their live shows, fed by an improvisational approach to music, were different from most touring bands. While rock and roll bands often rehearse a standard set, played with minor variations, the Grateful Dead did not prepare in this way. Garcia stated in a 1966 interview, "We don't make up our sets beforehand. We'd rather work off the tops of our heads than off a piece of paper."[83] They maintained this approach throughout their career. For each performance, the band drew material from an active list of a hundred or so songs.[83]

[Steely Tom]

Pigpen!

[Freestate316]

I see trails just looking at that picture. Saw them live close to 100 times.

[dfwgator]

The funny thing is, the surviving Dead members look like they’ve taken very good care of themselves over the years.